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Mister and Miss FAMU at the homecoming concert. (Ashley Bigbee\/FAMUAN)<\/p>\n
The week of Oct.\u00a013 through Oct. 19 promised\u00a0non-stop\u00a0entertainment,\u00a0networking\u00a0opportunities\u00a0and\u00a0celebration of\u00a0Florida A&M University\u2019s history.\u00a0Current FAMU students and alumni got to\u00a0engage with\u00a0star-studded panels,\u00a0concerts\u00a0and block parties\u00a0throughout the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Across\u00a0multiple social media platforms, posts\u00a0regarding\u00a0the festivities of FAMU\u2019s 2025 Homecoming\u00a0labeled it as\u00a0the\u00a0Greatest\u00a0Homecoming\u00a0On\u00a0Earth.\u00a0The use of the term\u00a0is\u00a0now\u00a0creating conversation amongst the HBCU\u00a0community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
GHOE was popularized by\u00a0alumni and current students of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State\u00a0University\u00a0referencing their homecoming. For many years, when GHOE was mentioned, it\u00a0directly\u00a0correlated to NCAT\u2019s\u00a0homecoming week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year brought a clear change to that, with\u00a0the hashtags\u00a0#ghoe and #therealghoe being\u00a0widely\u00a0used by FAMU students.\u00a0The\u00a0abrupt\u00a0adoption\u00a0of the term\u00a0for FAMU\u2019s standards begs to question\u00a0which school\u00a0has the right to claim their homecoming superior.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now,\u00a0a quick search of GHOE on social media\u00a0will bring\u00a0up results of\u00a0NCAT and FAMU students\u2019 videos and pictures.\u00a0Not many\u00a0NCAT students or alumni have commented on this emergence, but FAMU\u00a0stands strong in its\u00a0claim that it is the \u201creal GHOE\u201d or the \u201cnew GHOE.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Janya Greene, a second-year\u00a0biomedical\u00a0engineering\u00a0scholar,\u00a0compared\u00a0FAMU\u00a02025 Homecoming\u00a0events\u00a0page and\u00a0the official NCAT 2025 Homecoming events page. She noted similarities\u00a0and differences between the two\u00a0lineups,\u00a0ultimately\u00a0deciding\u00a0that FAMU\u2019s lineup offered\u00a0more variety.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I would prefer the\u00a0FAMU lineup, actually,\u201d\u00a0Greene said. \u201cJust\u00a0looking at it, they just have more opportunities\u00a0and more stuff to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Keauna Palmer, a second-year\u00a0pre-mechanical\u00a0engineering\u00a0scholar,\u00a0had a different stance. She\u00a0said NCAT\u2019s homecoming\u00a0is\u00a0consistent\u00a0with its events, living\u00a0up to the label of\u00a0GHOE.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would go to NCAT\u2019s,\u201d Palmer said,\u00a0after considering both schools\u2019 official lineups.\u00a0\u201cEvery year, NCAT is GHOE.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Admittedly,\u00a0both schools have things in common with their\u00a0weeklong homecoming lineup of events. The official\u00a02025\u00a0homecoming websites\u00a0for both FAMU and NCAT list a fashion show taking place on Tuesday, a\u00a0step show\u00a0on Friday,\u00a0and\u00a0a gospel concert on Sunday, to name a few.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nonetheless,\u00a0due to things like location, school spirit, history,\u00a0and tradition, every HBCU\u2019s homecoming harbors\u00a0a different\u00a0feeling.\u00a0One can\u00a0argue that every HBCU claims that its homecoming is simply the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite\u00a0competitive\u00a0banter between HBCUs,\u00a0they still support each other.\u00a0Every HBCU is unified by their rich history\u00a0built on supplying\u00a0education to black people by black people.\u00a0Though the argument of the best homecoming is subjective,\u00a0the importance of the annual celebrations of HBCU\u2019s speaks for itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mister and Miss FAMU at the homecoming concert. (Ashley Bigbee\/FAMUAN) The week of Oct.\u00a013 through Oct. 19 promised\u00a0non-stop\u00a0entertainment,\u00a0networking\u00a0opportunities\u00a0and\u00a0celebration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-76126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}